Dan C., a farmer from York, Pa., was a sinner and he knew it. It was his desire to be saved, but he was confident that prayers and works were the means to that end. To his sister he insisted that if he said his prayers and did the best he could he would surely to go heaven. No argument dislodged him from this forlorn hope. On a certain day his sister quoted the following to him: “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever does the best he can and says his prayers, shall not perish but have everlasting life.” And again: “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save those who do the best they can and say their prayers.”
“Jennie,” he asked, “is that in the Bible?”
“No, but that’s the way you want it.”
Sometime later he saw his sister again.
“Jennie!” he exclaimed, “I’m saved!”
“Are you? How are you saved?”
“Well, it’s not what I have done, nor what you have done, but what Christ has done!”
That’s it! The work is finished Jesus paid it all!
ML-10/08/1978